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Objective and Integrative Test

Objective and subjective scoring differ in how tests are scored and whether the examiner's judgement is involved. [1] Objective tests do not involve personal judgement and instead require students to select the correct response or supply a short answer. [2] Subjective tests, like essays, involve the examiner's personal judgement in grading. [3] Both test types can effectively measure educational achievement, but objective tests allow testing a wide range of material quickly while subjective tests encourage writing skill development.

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Objective and Integrative Test

Objective and subjective scoring differ in how tests are scored and whether the examiner's judgement is involved. [1] Objective tests do not involve personal judgement and instead require students to select the correct response or supply a short answer. [2] Subjective tests, like essays, involve the examiner's personal judgement in grading. [3] Both test types can effectively measure educational achievement, but objective tests allow testing a wide range of material quickly while subjective tests encourage writing skill development.

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OBJECTIVE AND

SUBJECTIVE SCORING
The difference between these two types is the way of scoring and
presence or absence of the examiner’s judgement. If there is not
any judgement, the test is objective. On the contrary, the subjective
test involves personal judgement of the examiner.
 Require students to select the correct response from several alternatives or to supply
a word or short phrase to answer a question or complete a statement. They are
associated with multiple-choice question, type tests and subjective tests with essays
and are graded objectively while subjective tests are thought to involve subjectivity in
grading.

 Are especially well suited to certain types of tasks. Because questions can be

OBJECTIVE designed to be answered quickly, they allow teachers to test students on a wide range
of material.
TESTS:  Are very good at examining recall of facts, knowledge and application of terms, and
questions that require short text or numerical responses.

 Objective tests are appropriate when:

 The group to be tested is large and the test may be reused.

 Exceptionally reliable scores must be obtained as efficiently as possible.

 Impartiality of evaluation, fairness, and free from possible test scoring influences are
essential.
 Permit the student to organize and present an original answer. Examples: short-
answer essay, extended-response essay, problem solving, performance test items
and opinion questions.

 This source also suggests guidelines for choosing between them: Essay tests are
appropriate when:

 The group to be tested is small and the test is not to be reused

 You wish to encourage and reward the development of student skill in writing
Subjective
 You are more interested in exploring student attitudes than in measuring his/her
test or essay: achievement.

 Either essay or objective tests can be used to:

·Measure almost any important educational achievement a written test can measure.

Test understanding and ability to apply principles.

 Test ability to think critically.

 Test ability to solve problems.


DISCRETE-POINT TESTING
Discrete-point testing works on the assumption that language can be
reduced to several discrete component “points” and that these “points” can
be assessed.
Examples: of discrete-point test items in language testing include multiple
choice, true/false, fill in the blank, and spelling.

They usually isolate an aspect of the language The primary criticism of discrete-point testing was its
from the broader context. For example, a simple discreteness. Many believe that language is wholistic and
spelling test is highly focused on the that in the real-world students will never have to deal with
orthographic characteristics of the language. language in such an isolated way. This led to the
True/false can be used to assess knowledge of development of integrative language testing methods.
various grammar rules etc.
Integrative tests may be either direct or indirect.
Integrative tests attempt to assess a learner's capacity to use
The use of the term integrative indicates that
many bits all at the same time, and possibly while exercising
they test more than one skill and/or item of
several presumed components of a grammatical system, and
knowledge at a time. Dictation is an integrative
perhaps more than one of the traditional skills or aspects of
test, because it involves listening skills, writing
skills.
skills, recognition of specific language items,
grammar (e.g: in order to distinguish
These direct tests all demand that the learner integrates a
whether /əv/ should be written as have or of) and
variety of skills and items of linguistic knowledge to
so on. Dictation is still, however, an indirect test.
complete the test and show how effectively the learner
can use the language in communication.
Among the activities related to integrative test
are cloze test dictation, translation essay on
other coherent writing task oral interview and
conversations reading another extent sample of
real text.

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